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01-31-2018, 03:40 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Chicagoland
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My advise is to ignore posters whom make these grammatical errors. If not, your just going to effect you’re outlook and attitudes for the day. Bad advise all around, and its also going to bother those whom feel the urge to correct other's.
Regarding investment advise, I’d rather have after tax then tax-differed. Fewer taxes have to be payed down the road. Its better to pay those taxes now, anyway. Either way it doesn’t effect myself all that much. Just make sure each investment is in it’s proper account.
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01-31-2018, 03:48 PM
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#2982
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Moderator Emeritus
Join Date: Sep 2007
Posts: 17,774
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 Quote:
Originally Posted by MichaelB
My advise is to ignore posters whom make these grammatical errors. If not, your just going to effect you’re outlook and attitudes for the day. Bad advise all around, and its also going to bother those whom feel the urge to correct other's.
Regarding investment advise, I’d rather have after tax then tax-differed. Fewer taxes have to be payed down the road. Its better to pay those taxes now, anyway. Either way it doesn’t effect myself all that much. Just make sure each investment is in it’s proper account.
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And remember to plan a good withdrawl rate.
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“Would you like an adventure now, or would you like to have your tea first?” J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan
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01-31-2018, 03:53 PM
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#2983
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Moderator
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Eastern WV Panhandle
Posts: 25,340
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Y'all are just plane mean....
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When I was a kid I wanted to be older. This is not what I expected.
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01-31-2018, 04:34 PM
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#2984
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
Give me a forum ...
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Lawn chair in Texas
Posts: 14,183
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Originally Posted by davemartin88
For those who read my note above about giving away a tv, 3 days later and I still have it. At least 5 no shows who gave specific times when they would be here to pick it up but didn't make it. Only one let me know they had changed their mind since the tv wouldn't fit the space they thought it would. Will load it up on the truck tomorrow and take it to the landfill, marked the ad sold as not worth dealing with anymore.
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Here in Stepfordville you must recycle. I had to pay Best Buy, the closest authorized location, twenty bucks...
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Have Funds, Will Retire
...not doing anything of true substance...
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01-31-2018, 06:38 PM
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#2985
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Oct 2009
Posts: 2,010
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Try calling Habitat for Humanity local store. They would possibly pick it up and resell it in their store.
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01-31-2018, 08:11 PM
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Recycles dryer sheets
Join Date: Aug 2012
Posts: 297
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Originally Posted by ERD50
Amazon often uses a larger box than needed. Considering that this is their life-blood, I just can't understand that they are not more efficient in this regard. -ERD50
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I recently ordered a case of salsa from Amazon. Done it before and it came in a perfectly fine cardboard case of 12. This time it came in three boxes (from Walmart) - quantities seven, four and one. Each bottle was individually hand-wrapped in either six feet of bubble wrap, or seriously 20 foot long strip of paper. Each box stuffed with tons more paper and bubble wrap. One had a strip of plastic wrapped around the obviously leaky lid with 'wrapped for leak protection' on it. Took me half an hour to unwrap and recycle all that stuff. Made no sense at all - they can't have made much of a profit on that sale.
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01-31-2018, 10:32 PM
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#2987
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Jun 2017
Location: Chicagoland
Posts: 1,127
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Quote:
Originally Posted by MichaelB
My advise is to ignore posters whom make these grammatical errors. If not, your just going to effect you’re outlook and attitudes for the day. Bad advise all around, and its also going to bother those whom feel the urge to correct other's.
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It's a mute point anyways. 
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02-01-2018, 05:57 AM
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#2988
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: The Beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains
Posts: 2,791
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Mute point, LOL. THat used to drive me nuts when one of my bosses said that. I’ve learned to be amused by it and other eggcorns.
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02-01-2018, 06:28 AM
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#2989
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Join Date: May 2011
Posts: 8,368
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Originally Posted by GalaxyBoy
Mute point, LOL. THat used to drive me nuts when one of my bosses said that. I’ve learned to be amused by it and other eggcorns. |
I always enjoy question marks at the end of statements?
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02-01-2018, 09:22 AM
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#2990
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Pacific latitude 20/49
Posts: 7,677
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Nemo2
On another site, (and no, I didn't respond to it), someone stated that they "Work with two people whom chew".. (without the comma 'both of' before whom).......thought I was on the set of the Mrs Bucket TV show.
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People who say "I would of done it anyway." When did of replace have?
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For the fun of it...Keith
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02-01-2018, 09:31 AM
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#2991
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Pacific latitude 20/49
Posts: 7,677
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Quote:
Originally Posted by samclem
"Automatic" devices that make life worse. 3 examples:2) "Smart" car door locks: That lock the doors when the car starts moving, won't let me unlock them if the car is in drive, etc. How about if the doors just do what I ask when I hit the switch?
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I rented a Renault Duster in Paris. It had a lock button on the dashboard. Pressing it for 5 seconds causes autolock to engage. Pressing for less causes unlock. Never figured out how to lock the doors when leaving the car.
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02-01-2018, 09:44 AM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Portland
Posts: 1,713
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Quote:
Originally Posted by davemartin88
For those who read my note above about giving away a tv, 3 days later and I still have it. At least 5 no shows who gave specific times when they would be here to pick it up but didn't make it. Only one let me know they had changed their mind since the tv wouldn't fit the space they thought it would. Will load it up on the truck tomorrow and take it to the landfill, marked the ad sold as not worth dealing with anymore.
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Do you still have it? I can be there pretty soon
Maybe change your ad to $100. Let them negotiate down to $25
If CL on the free tab doesn't work I have had some luck on Freecycle. Also put out on curb once. Gone before I could go inside & post on CL
edit: Forgot that Goodwill recycles E waste. Maybe call? They won't pickup but might be closer
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02-01-2018, 09:45 AM
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#2993
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Laurel, MD
Posts: 8,327
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Quote:
Originally Posted by ERD50
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Amazon often uses a larger box than needed. Considering that this is their life-blood, I just can't understand that they are not more efficient in this regard.
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On the packaging, they sent me a survey requesting feedback on their packaging. I was impressed and told them so but the packaging continues to be crazy. I bought a pair of windshield wiper blades. They shipped them separately on two boxes big enough for a dozen blades each.
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02-01-2018, 09:46 AM
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#2994
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: West of the Mississippi
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The worst is the 'Sicilian' style pizza sold by a local pizza chain. I doubt if a Sicilian would recognize the stuff. It's all in the imagination of some marketing person.
And don't get me started on how Starbucks mis-labeled the 'latté'.
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Comparison is the thief of joy
The worst decisions are usually made in times of anger and impatience.
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02-01-2018, 09:54 AM
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Full time employment: Posting here.
Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: Orlando, Fl
Posts: 952
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Nemo2
I always enjoy question marks at the end of statements?
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So I always enjoy statements that start with the word "So".........
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02-01-2018, 10:05 AM
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#2996
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: yonder
Posts: 2,851
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Quote:
Originally Posted by kcowan
People who say "I would of done it anyway." When did of replace have?
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When did "of" replace have? 
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When the people shall have nothing more to eat, they will eat the rich--philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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02-01-2018, 12:43 PM
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#2997
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: The Beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains
Posts: 2,791
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Y'all ain't from around here, are you?
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02-01-2018, 02:29 PM
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Full time employment: Posting here.
Join Date: Aug 2008
Posts: 812
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Put the tv back,up on Facebook this morning and someone messaged me, then picked it up in an hour. Seemed happy to have so glad it’s gone. I think the plan was to try and watch the Super Bowl this weekend, then try to sell it. Hopefully they will get a few bucks for it.
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02-02-2018, 06:21 PM
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#2999
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Oct 2008
Posts: 2,796
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Foreign young people on Youtube who are speaking English with perfect American accents. Swedes, Germans, Spanish, Russians, everything. Not all of them, but a lot. It bugs me, for some reason. Too much globalization, maybe?
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02-02-2018, 06:58 PM
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#3000
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Oct 2009
Posts: 2,010
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Or maybe they care enough to learn proper english?
Or they haven't learned any colloquialisms yet?
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